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Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:38 am
by foxytaur (imported)
I'd like to pet a whale shark. (the ones with huge tubular mouths that suck plankton in like a vacuum would to dust, their apparently harmless)

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:51 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
foxytaur (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:38 am I'd like to pet a whale shark. (the ones with huge tubular mouths that suck plankton in like a vacuum would to dust, their apparently harmless)

Apparently, however I would not want to be on the bad side of one.

River

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:49 pm
by Dave (imported)
foxytaur (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:38 am I'd like to pet a whale shark. (the ones with huge tubular mouths that suck plankton in like a vacuum would to dust, their apparently harmless)

Whales like dolphins and certain other fish use their flukes to strike fish and stun them.

They think you are a fish and all other fish are food to them.

If you find a way to pet any shark, please let me know. I'm too chicken. Not that I never swam in the ocean, that I did. And high seas too. But man eating fish scare me too much.

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:24 am
by foxytaur (imported)
Whale sharks eat small tiny fish, algae, clouds of eggs and sperm during mass spawning of fish shoals along with sea plankton.

http://www.whalefacts.org/whale-shark-facts/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... shark.html

Though harmless there was apparently an incident a few yrs ago where a diver almost got stuck in it's mouth somewhere in mexico but escaped easily unharmed.

NB = The Pinocchio and Geppetto scene comes to mind.

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:47 am
by JesusA (imported)
After this grand mash-up of shark and twister, what's the next low budget animal–natural disaster flick likely to hit the TV screen. Time magazine suggested the following five for starters:

EMUQUAKE: "Big Birds mean big trouble"

BEARICANE: "This summer, the fur will fly."

BEENAMI: "The swarm washes over you this August."

HIPPOPOCALYPSE: "The hungry, hungry end of the world."

HURRICANINE: "When you hear the wind howling, hurry home."

Any additional suggestions from the creative crew here?

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:21 am
by Dave (imported)
Armagedardvark ?

Giraffapocalypse ?

Rhino-narok ?

Porka-pocalypse ?

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:56 pm
by moi621 (imported)
👌 here are some real critternatodoes

http://weather.yahoo.com/-real-life-ani ... 14665.html

It can happen: Real life animal tornadoes

Fish fall from sky. In 2010, residents in the Australian outback town of Lajamanu were rained upon by hundreds of falling spangled perch.

“These fish fell in the hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up,” Christine Balmer told the Daily Mail. She experienced the odd weather while walking home.

Meteorologists told the newspaper at the time that the cause of the flying fish was probably a tornado that sucked up river water and fish and then dumped them hundreds of miles away.

Similar incidents were reported in Folsom, Calif., on New Year’s Eve 2006, and earlier this month, fish were seen raining down in Manna, India. Waterspouts were to blame in both cases.

“A waterspout can sometimes successfully suck small objects like fish out of the water and all the way up into the cloud,” Nilton Renno, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, told Scienceline.org.

“Even if the waterspout stops spinning, the fish in the cloud can be carried over land, buffeted up and down and around with the cloud’s winds until its currents no longer keep the flying fish in the atmosphere,” Renno said. Then what once went up, must go down.

Frognado. It’s not just fish that fly: A “frognado” was reported in Serbia in 2005. Strong winds hit a town about 75 miles northwest of Belgrade and brought falling frogs.

"I saw countless frogs fall from the sky," Odzaci resident Aleksandar Ciric told News 24.com.

Climatologists said the amphibian phenomenon could be explained by "a wind resembling a tornado (that) can suck in anything light enough from the surface or shallow water.”

Ick! Watch out for falling worms. In July 2007, Jennings, La., residents reported clumps of crawling worms falling from the sky.

"When I saw that they were crawling, I said, 'It's worms! Get out of the way!'" Eleanor Beal told local station WAFB. The gross-out nightmare was attributed to a waterspout seen five miles away near Lacassine Bayou.

Shower of alligators. The most horrifying example thankfully appears to be a very rare event: alligators in a tornado. According to an 1887 story surfaced by CryptoMundo, a South Carolina man claims he was rained down on and surrounded by eight alligators from the sky.

"Dr. J.L. Smith, of Silverton Township, while opening up a new turpentine farm, noticed something fall to the ground and commence to crawl toward the tent where he was sitting. On examining the object he found it to be an alligator." The “shower of alligators” is believed to have come from a waterspout.

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Sharknado has indeed become a cultural phenomena and probably deserves a place in a time capsule of this era.

There are future sharnadoes coming. Call it climate change 😄

Moi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swMzRlFvKMc

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:51 am
by Dave (imported)
Apparently the Midnight showings of the movie did well in at least three cities.

It's an attempt to get a cult status for the movie much like ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW did a number of years ago...

It is interesting that the SCIENCE channel (an offspring of Discovery Network) and the DISCOVERY channel are celebrating SHARK WEEK.

In fact SCIENCE channel used the "SNUFFY THE SEAL" promo for Shark Week. If you never saw that promo, here it is:
moi621 (imported) wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:56 pm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
3_i3PPe3i9Y

Also, GHOST SHARK was too much and too deep into the vein of complete silliness to gain some status. I mean who would believe a shark afterlife? That's like aliens resurrecting a Wooly Mammoth or mating a man and mosquito and having him suck blood...

🙃

One last thing: SHARKNADO 2 is reported to be set New York City ...

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:21 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
Its been playing on several channels, I love the shark, OH the horror of it all. 😄

River

Re: Sharknado (redux)

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:25 pm
by moi621 (imported)
I Wonder :D

What elements converged to create this instant cultural and cult classic.

Were we "ready" for the experience now when it might have been a failure 6 months this way or that ?

There was something more to it then just combining sharks - Jaws, and tornadoes.

Sharknado NYC ! 👏

Moi